This came over MarketWatch this morning:

IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) and Ask Jeeves, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASKJ) today announced they have signed
an agreement under which IAC will purchase Ask Jeeves.

IAC is a huge player on the Web. Although few have heard of the parent company, most have heard of holdings that include Match.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com and Expedia.

Of […]

Anyone else as disappointed in online social / business networking  as I am?
A few years ago, I signed-up for Monster networking, which I thought was a great idea at the time. I’ve also signed-up for Ryze and LinkedIn. I don’t pay for any of them.
Since then, I can’t count one positive thing that’s come of […]

If you’re not familiar with how Google makes the bulk of its gazillions of dollars, it’s advertising. Do a search on Google and in the sponsors area of the results page, you’ll see links. Google makes money from an advertiser every time a user clicks on those sponsored results.
Yahoo! has a similar solution (formerly Overture), […]

In light of the recent chimpanzee attack, am I the only one who looks at the new CareerBuilder commercials in a whole new light?

This is really cool. SearchEngineWatch has apparently done a very scientific study on how people scan a search engine results page. Google was used for this example:

The more red a section is, the more eyeballs it receives. This same research is probably applicable on how a user views any Web page, but it’s especially telling […]

 Google announced a new feature for Google
News today that enables users to customize their front-page news as
they read it.
The enhancement underscores Google’s goal to get surfers to find and organize the information they want, sort of like a MyGoogle page. Currently, this customization solution lets users select from nine available languages and
22 local editions. […]

Boo! Look at this miserable, scum-sucking piece of blog spam:
http://findsurveyshere.blogspot.com/
It’s clearly a sign of things to come. Submit this crap directly to Google’s spam police if you ever come across  it.